Bible School Under Fire For Using Adolf Hitler Quote On Billboard

A billboard rented by a Bibleschoolfeaturing smiling children and an Adolf Hitler quote is causing controversy at a mall.

The billboard, which is at the Village Mall, features five smiling kids beneath an Adolf Hitler quote thatreads“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”

Life Savers Ministries rented out the billboard according theLedger-Enquirer.

“We are pulling the billboard and certainly never intended to cause confusion. … Herbert Hoover would have been a far better one to quote when he said, ‘Children are our most valuableresource,’” founder James Anderegg told theLedger-Enquirer. “We are a children’s organization and had honorable intentions and nothing less.”

Historically, the quote traces back to Hitler’s speeches of the 1930s and is associated with the Nazi youth programs.

Life Savers Ministries, which was founded in 1996, requested that the billboard only be up for five days.

“Life-Savers Ministries was birthed out of a “need,” astatementon their website reads. “A need to reach the weakest and the forgotten, the “at risk” children from the roughest areas, the areas where most either speed by or shun altogether. We believe we have a responsibility that we cannot dodge. In ourteachingwe are giving our children the time, attention, respect, and commitment they deserve and our God requires.”

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